60 Wash. 2d 551 - State v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably 105 Wash. 2d 692 - State v. Kwan Fai Mak (1986), Commonwealth v. McHoul (1967)
6 federal appellate · 101 state decisions — followed in 19 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Strasburg
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the time of the commission of the offense, as a result of mental disease or defect, the mind of the actor was affected to such extent that: (a) He was unable to perceive the nature and quality of the act with which he is charged; or (b) He was unable to tell right from wrong with reference to the particular act charged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Is the mind of the accused so diseased or affected at the time of the commission of the act charged that he is unable to perceive the moral qualities of the act with which he is charged and is unable to tell right from wrong with reference to the particular acts charged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The law inquires not into the peculiar constitution of mind of the accused, or the mental weaknesses or disorders or defects with which he may be afflicted, but solely into the question of his capacity, at the time he committed a forbidden act, to have a criminal intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.